Message in a Bottle Found in the Street in Nahant, Massachusetts

The Boston Herald reports that a bittersweet, five year old message in a bottle found in the street in Nahant has been reunited with 13-year-old Sabine Harnisch who sent it in Gloucester Bay back in 2013 as she commemorated and said goodbye to her grandmother.

Sabine “received an unexpected call from Jana Simonds, of Nahant, who spotted the bottle in the street while walking to meet her neighbor, Larry Carlson, for lunch, just before yesterday’s historic midday high tide lashed the coastline. Inside, she found Sabine’s message, along with her phone number,” according to the Boston Herald.

1985 – A Year in a Bottle

Every message in a bottle is a little time machine–each one captures a life at a specific moment in time, in a specific place. That moment, time, and place remain preserved until some lucky person stumbles upon the bottle and rockets back to the moment of its creation. Like a genie in a lamp, the person behind a bottled note emerges as they were when it was sent. Magic. Continue reading →

Family from Northern Ireland Found a Letter in a Bottle on Holiday

A lot of days, I feel like the luckiest person in the world. Thanks to my strange hobby, people send me stories about their own message in a bottle experiences. These stories are almost always delightful and heartening. Often, a simple letter in a bottle has the power to change lives.

Not long ago, Norah Brown-Davis wrote from Northern Ireland to share her family’s fascinating and heartwarming story. It’s such a Continue reading →